Welcome Dan and Leticia Cardonick, New Member of Temple Hesed

Dan Cardonick is the new Executive Director of the Jewish Community Center of Scranton. For the past thirteen years he has worked at Young Judaea/Hadassah, and spent the last seven years as its National Director of American Programs in New York City. Additionally, Dan has worked in the camping world having served on the senior staff at Camp Young Judaea Sprout Lake (summers 1997-1998) and Camp Tel Yehudah (summers 1999-2001). He grew up in Cherry Hill, NJ and worked at the JCC Camps at Medford and for the Children’s Department of the JCC of Southern New Jersey. Dan was a participant in the 2005 Kaplan Seminar for Emerging Professionals sponsored by the Hornstein Program in Jewish Communal Service at Brandeis University. He also served as the Chair of the 2007 JEXNET Professionals Conference (the network for experiential Jewish youth education) in Atlanta, GA. Dan is a 1996 graduate of Penn State University and holds a B.S. in Health Policy & Administration and a Minor in Gerontology.

The real pride and joy of Dan’s life has been his family. Dan arrives to Scranton with his wife Leticia, daughter Allison, and dog Crash (130 lb. St. Benard) from Holmdel, NJ where they lived for the past several years. They have been married almost eight years. Her profession is hedgefunds as she previously worked for Caxton Associates, Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley. She has taken time off from working in order to stay home with daughter Allison who turned two this past April. Leticia enjoys reading, investing and skydiving. In 2005, Dan & Leticia added their lovable dog Crash, and their greatest addition came in 2008 when they welcomed Allison into their lives. Allison is two years old and full of energy. She loves to play games, read books, go to parks, pet animals and watch “Yo Gabba Gabba” on television.